Romans 6:1
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What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Romans 3:5
But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

Romans 3:8
And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

Romans 5:20
Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.

Romans 6:15
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

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What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

What.

Romans 3:5 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

Shall.

Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

Romans 3:5-8,31 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? . . .

Romans 5:20,21 Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound. . . .

Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

1 Peter 2:16 As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

2 Peter 2:18,19 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: . . .

Jude 1:4 For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Context
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
1What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?…
Lexicon
What
Τί (Ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

then
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

shall we say?
ἐροῦμεν (eroumen)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2046: Probably a fuller form of rheo; an alternate for epo in certain tenses; to utter, i.e. Speak or say.

Shall we continue
ἐπιμένωμεν (epimenōmen)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1961: (a) I remain, tarry, (b) I remain in, persist in. From epi and meno; to stay over, i.e. Remain.

in sin
ἁμαρτίᾳ (hamartia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 266: From hamartano; a sin.

so that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

grace
χάρις (charis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 5485: From chairo; graciousness, of manner or act.

may increase?
πλεονάσῃ (pleonasē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 4121: From pleion; to do, make or be more, i.e. Increase; by extension, to superabound.


Additional Translations
What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

What then will we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
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